Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space.
Khan Noonien Singh
A good modern trailer for the best of the Star Trek films. Hard to believe it has been 39 years since it came out. I was studying for the bar that summer, and the day my Bride, then my fiancee, and I saw it was my one bit of entertainment that season.
The film works so well largely because the late and great Ricardo Montalban was such a superb villain. Sixty-two in 1982, he had the physique of a much younger man and was completely believable as a man driven by tragedy to exact a terrible revenge on Kirk.
Shatner delivered the best performance of his career, as an aging, fifty-one year old, admiral, longing for his lost youth, who still had a few tricks up his sleeve, with his beloved Enterprise, against his old foe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl_y5wTeJtk
The film is a wild ride with surprisingly profound observations about aging, change and loss. The film that saved the franchise.
Agreed. The best movie of that series, mostly because of Senor Montabaln and his inspired performance as Khan.
Getting the director’s cut is very worthwhile.
And yes, the ending made me tear up.
Yes, this did save the franchise. It was the high water mark for the films.
It was a good time with friends.